New Tricks
This blog piece started on my wife’s laptop. I had written what I considered four inspired paragraphs when all of a sudden they vanished. The whole page disappeared. Apparently, I brushed my left hand against something on the computer and made it change everything.
Technology is not always everything it’s cracked up to be.
So I started writing it again, but without the inspiration. Anger had killed that. In the first attempt, I had written this bit about old dogs and new tricks that was really clever. The computer killed it. Then the next paragraph was about learning not to be late to appointments because you just might miss a great opportunity. In my case, being late cost me the chance to meet John Wayne in person. Yes, THE John Wayne, the Duke himself. It was a good story, too, and it had a lesson in it. Now how can you beat that?
After that, I mentioned my writing career, all the books, etc., etc., etc. There was a point to that. I was leading up to the newest thing for me in this business of entertaining with the written word, which is making the books on my backlist available to the Kindle Generation on Amazon. Some of those titles were originally published over 30 years ago. Best example is THE OSWALD REFLECTION. I wrote it in the summer of 1977, and it was published under the title TWICE DEAD at the end of 1978. Unlike a lot of authors, I was in print in my early 30s. Most don’t make it until they are at least 40. Oops! Sorry. Bragging. Moving on.
TWICE DEAD was a good story that was a little less than adequately written. Over the years, I developed my own style of writing, which is now far removed from the way I wrote DEAD. (Appropriate, hey? DEAD, hey? Omigod! We live too close to Canada. Sometimes Canadian speech drifts south in the ether and finds its way into my head and then out my mouth. I have no other excuse for using that expression.)
Anyway, in the mid-90s, I decided to rewrite DEAD and call it THE OSWALD REFLECTION. I had a few copies printed for personal use. Then along came Kindle and another opportunity to see my work become available to the general public. Not just OSWALD but all the books on my backlist could be revived because all of them are timeless, so to speak.
So the adventure with Kindle Books has begun. Enjoy!
Technology is not always everything it’s cracked up to be.
So I started writing it again, but without the inspiration. Anger had killed that. In the first attempt, I had written this bit about old dogs and new tricks that was really clever. The computer killed it. Then the next paragraph was about learning not to be late to appointments because you just might miss a great opportunity. In my case, being late cost me the chance to meet John Wayne in person. Yes, THE John Wayne, the Duke himself. It was a good story, too, and it had a lesson in it. Now how can you beat that?
After that, I mentioned my writing career, all the books, etc., etc., etc. There was a point to that. I was leading up to the newest thing for me in this business of entertaining with the written word, which is making the books on my backlist available to the Kindle Generation on Amazon. Some of those titles were originally published over 30 years ago. Best example is THE OSWALD REFLECTION. I wrote it in the summer of 1977, and it was published under the title TWICE DEAD at the end of 1978. Unlike a lot of authors, I was in print in my early 30s. Most don’t make it until they are at least 40. Oops! Sorry. Bragging. Moving on.
TWICE DEAD was a good story that was a little less than adequately written. Over the years, I developed my own style of writing, which is now far removed from the way I wrote DEAD. (Appropriate, hey? DEAD, hey? Omigod! We live too close to Canada. Sometimes Canadian speech drifts south in the ether and finds its way into my head and then out my mouth. I have no other excuse for using that expression.)
Anyway, in the mid-90s, I decided to rewrite DEAD and call it THE OSWALD REFLECTION. I had a few copies printed for personal use. Then along came Kindle and another opportunity to see my work become available to the general public. Not just OSWALD but all the books on my backlist could be revived because all of them are timeless, so to speak.
So the adventure with Kindle Books has begun. Enjoy!
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